Assessment and accreditation of a medical college by national assessment and accreditation council: an overview

Accreditation affirms provision of quality education, thus determines its graduate attributes. WFME, WHO and various bodies have been striving to ensure credibility of educational institutions through accreditation. NAAC is an Indian accrediting body providing framework for quality assurance to higher education institutions. Being an autonomous body under UGC, it sets a standard of excellence to which they are bound to adhere. This article provides details regarding an insight into NAAC, its vision, objectives, core values and the process of accreditation. The details regarding various criteria, components, allotment of weightage to each of them are detailed in the manuscript. The requirements and needs towards preparedness for this accreditation process are simplified to make the readers to understand easily thus providing a bird抯 eye view of entire process.

Management of laboratory animals of new drug safety evaluation in GLP and AAALACi certification systems / 药物评价研究

With the global development of the research of medicine,more and more new drug safety evaluation institutions have been certified by Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALACi).Laboratory animal,which is the carrier of drug safety evaluation,its survival condition and animal welfare will directly effect the experimental results.Dealing with laboratory animal husbandry by scientific methods in two systems is the requirement to make sure the accuracy of experimental data of animal experiments.With the certification processes and practical experiences in two certification systems of Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research New Drug Evaluation Co.,Ltd.,also accompanied by experience exchangement with peers,the relationship of practices in two certification systems will be preliminarily discussed;Through strengthening the management of laboratory animal,it can help the institutions get the certificates.

Aplicación de un sistema de gestión de la calidad NC-ISO 9001 a la dirección del posgrado académico / Application of a NC-ISO 9001 Quality Management System to the administration of the academic postgraduate studies

INTRODUCCIÓN: la implementación y certificación de un Sistema de Gestión de la Calidad NC-ISO 9001 requiere del cumplimiento de los principios y requisitos que esta norma establece. Las organizaciones que brindan servicios de posgrado académico como uno de sus procesos clave, necesitan entender y aplicar los requisitos de la norma de conjunto con los requisitos legales aplicables a este proceso en la República de Cuba. OBJETIVO: mostrar cómo se aplican los principios y requisitos de la norma NC-ISO 9001 en el posgrado académico, teniéndose como caso de estudio la gestión de un programa de maestría en el Centro Nacional de Cirugía de Mínimo Acceso. MÉTODOS: se emplearon como técnicas; la observación, análisis del contenido de documentos y trabajo en equipo. RESULTADO: se implementó de un sistema NC-ISO 9001 en el proceso de posgrado. Fue necesario conjugar los requisitos relativos al diseño/desarrollo, las prestación del servicio formativo, la evaluación del desempeño y la mejora de los programas con la legislación vigente en el sector; a partir de la aplicación del Reglamento de Posgrado de la República de Cuba y el Sistema de Evaluación y Acreditación de Maestrías; todo ello sobre la base de la observancia de los principios de gestión de la calidad.

INTRODUCTION: The implementation and certification of a NC-ISO 9001 quality management system require compliance with the principles and requirements established in this standard. Organizations that provide educational services to obtain academic degrees as one of its key processes need to understand and implement the requirements of the standard in conjunction with the legal requirements applicable to this process in the Republic of Cuba. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to show how the principles and requirements of the NC-ISO 9001 standard are applied in the management of academic postgraduate studies, having as a study case the master degree formation program in the National Centre for Minimal Access Surgery. METHODS: As research techniques participative observation, content analysis of documents and team work were employed. RESULTS: A NC-ISO 9001 system in the postgraduate formation process was implemented. It was to combine the requirements for the design/development, the provision of formation service, performance evaluation and improvement of programs with current legislation in the sector, taking the application of Postgraduate Studies Regulation of the Republic of Cuba and the Assessment and Accreditation System of Master Degree Studies as the starting point, all based on the observance of the principles of quality management.